Stroke Audit Co-ordinator SSNAP

Main area Neurology and Stroke Grade Band 3 Contract Fixed term: 7 months (Maternity Leave Cover) Hours Part time – 22.5 hours per week Job ref 200-NN-712823-A&C-Z-MK

Employer St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site St George’s Hospital Town London Salary £29,485 – £31,088 pro rata, per annum, including HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 28/03/2025 23:59

Stroke Audit Co-ordinator SSNAP

Band 3

*The pay scales advertised have been confirmed by NHS England, we are awaiting confirmation of when these will be reflected. The new scales can be found here: Pay scales for 2024/25 | NHS Employers

Job overview

The Stroke service provides a 24 hour, 7 day a week service for thrombolysis (giving ‘clot-busting’ drugs to open up blocked arteries causing stroke) and mechanical thrombectomy. This is a regional service so we also accept patients from local hospitals who do not provide thrombolysis outside normal working hours.

The stroke service has two wards:

•20 bed Hyper Acute Stroke Unit (HASU / William Drummond Ward) which gives immediate care for patients who have a suspected stroke in SW London

•Stroke Unit for local patients (SU / Thomas Young Ward) – 16 beds

The Stroke service has nine consultants and a multi-disciplinary staff including specialist therapists and nurses.

The Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP) is a major national healthcare quality improvement programme based in the School of Population Health and Environmental Studies at King’s College London. SSNAP measures the quality and organisation of stroke care in the NHS and is the single source of stroke data in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

As a member of the Stroke Audit Team, the post holder will help facilitate the collection and inputting of data for all patients that attend the Hyper Acute Stroke Unit and Stroke Unit at St George’s University Hospital.

Main duties of the job

1. Ensuring all patients admitted to the Trust with a stroke diagnosis are captured on the SSNAP database in the appropriate time frame.
2. Maintaining spreadsheets that contain clinical and personal information relating to a patients stroke care.
3. Prioritise daily tasks and ongoing workloads – and complete in agreed time frames as determined by the clinical team and Stroke Audit Team Lead.
4. Working closely with Stroke Physicians, Nurses and Therapists to improve data quality.
5. Liaison with external hospitals and SSNAP teams for data transfers.
6. Assist in achieving the required Case Ascertainment and Audit Compliance targets set by SSNAP, through the safe/accurate/prompt storage of data.
7. Develop and continue to enhance understanding of the stroke pathway at St. Georges by periodically attending acute thrombolysis and thrombectomy calls, attending thrombectomy procedures, MDT and handover on HASU and TYW.
8. Attend weekly SSNAP team meeting with clinical lead for SSNAP (and periodically with Assistant Service Manager).
9. Support stroke audit and research within the Stroke team (and other relevant departments) at St. George’s.
10. Attend SSNAP webinars regarding any relevant topics/data-set updates.

Working for our organisation

St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Ensuring all patients admitted to the Trust with a stroke diagnosis are captured on the SSNAP database in the appropriate time frame.
2. Maintaining spreadsheets that contain clinical and personal information relating to a patients stroke care.
3. Prioritise daily tasks and ongoing workloads – and complete in agreed time frames as determined by the clinical team and Stroke Audit Team Lead.
4. Working closely with Stroke Physicians, Nurses and Therapists to improve data quality.
5. Liaison with external hospitals and SSNAP teams for data transfers.
6. Assist in achieving the required Case Ascertainment and Audit Compliance targets set by SSNAP, through the safe/accurate/prompt storage of data.
7. Develop and continue to enhance understanding of the stroke pathway at St. Georges by periodically attending acute thrombolysis and thrombectomy calls, attending thrombectomy procedures, MDT and handover on HASU and TYW.
8. Attend weekly SSNAP team meeting with clinical lead for SSNAP (and periodically with Assistant Service Manager).
9. Support stroke audit and research within the Stroke team (and other relevant departments) at St. George’s.
10. Attend SSNAP webinars regarding any relevant topics/data-set updates.

Person specification

Qualifications & Training

• Excellent computer skills including familiarity with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint
• ECDL, equivalent qualification or 2 years’ experience of using Microsoft office – word, excel and outlook

Experience

• Experience of inputting and retrieving information from databases
• Experience with a variety of computer programmes
• Experience of working in a clinical environment
• NHS or similar experience
• Experience of NHS IT systems. E.g. CERNER Millennium
• SSNAP Clinical Audit
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent organisational skills
• Adaptability and able to learn quickly
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to prioritise and adhere to targets and strict deadlines with often competing demands
• Ability to show empathy to patients and colleagues

Knowledge

• Knowledge of requirements of confidentiality and the data protection act
• Ability to understand medical terminology

Other

• Ability to work as part of a team
• Customer orientated approach
• Self-motivated
• Flexibility to adapt to patients variable needs.
• To have a professional appearance and manner

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these.

Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.

If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:

• The machine readable zone
• An ultra violet image
• An infra red image

As part of your pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require at least one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.

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The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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